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Welcome to YUROP
The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence
A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.
Here we toast:
πͺπΊ The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
π§ The freest of health care
π· The finest of foods
π³οΈβπ The liberalest of liberties
π The proud non-members and honorary cousins
πΆ And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.
Post memes, news, satire, linguistic wars, train maps, cursed food photos, Eurovision fever, propaganda and whatever makes you scream βonly in YUROP.β
Leave your stereotypes at the border control and enjoy the ride.
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The EU was founded so the largest members would be so economically dependent on each other that they wouldn't start another world war.
I think it tries to act in the interest of all members, with varying degrees of success. It definitely does act in the interest of the poorer member states as well, by facilitating economic development. If you compare the countries behind the iron curtain, the ones that joined the EU are on the whole doing a lot better than the ones that didn't.
They are in the habit of forcing through deals that are very advantageous for them. I don't like it, either. Probably the only thing we can agree on.
They buy raw materials from countries that sell them? Is that what you're saying? They have to. They don't have any raw materials themselves. And they pay market price for them. This is just doing business. Everyone benefits from this.
What does this mean? "The EU's international legal system"? Are you talking about the ICC? The WTO? Are you talking about EU law that just applies in the EU?
This is actually an outrageous accusation. The EU is in no way responsible for any refugee crises, and they certainly do not commit genocide against refugees. They also accept more refugees than anyone else, despite not having the resources to absorb all of them.
Greenland will have independence as soon as it is economically feasible. This is the consensus on Greenland and in Denmark. And the Nordic people actually lived on Greenland 200 years before the Thule people. How long until colonizers become the good guys in your opinion?
The EU has never been an empire. They are a bunch of tiny countries that are trying to work together, and they are the only major player in the world that stands for a rules based international order. As someone who lives in a tiny country that can't defend itself against its larger neighbors militarily, that's really important to me.